Quotes About Revolt

I do what I do best. I move in the opposite direction.

Rebellion leads to ruin.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

On suppose que l'art nous rend révoltés en nous montrant des choses révoltantes, qu'il nous mobilise par le fait de se mouvoir hors de l'atelier ou du musée et qu'il nous transforme en opposants au système dominant en se niant lui- même comme élément de ce système.

The truth was I was not a cynic by nature; only by revolt. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.

Between October 19 and 23, the rebel lords did the unthinkable.

what Moray and the rebel lords had done was unconscionable

Revolt is the right of the people

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Weren't we having a mutiny?

The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.

when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.

Why did it revolt me and leave a taste like a spoiled egg? Am I so good, or so kind, or so just? I don't think so. Am I so proud? Well, there's some of that. Am I lazy, too lazy to be involved? There;s an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

By this time the Indian fighting had become like dangerous cattle drives—the tribes were forced into revolt, driven and decimated, and the sad, sullen remnants settled on starvation lands. It was not nice work but, given the pattern of the country's development, it had to be done.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home.